Calvin Trillin Quotes

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Calvin Trillin

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WritingYouDeliveryYourRobbed

I was always a strong personality. I was never an introvert.

Megyn Kelly

PersonalityStrongNeverAlways

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

Anita Roddick

HeartEverythingMarketControls

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Mikhail Bakunin

RevolutionPlansWhoAfterMakes

I think it's important to view the issues on the broadest possible reference plane. In fact, if you firmly believe in any issue, I urge you to read the opposite of it. Most of the time, it'll merely reinforce your original beliefs, but on the rare occasion, it might change your mind.

Michael Ramirez

ChangeTimeMindBelieveThinkView

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

Craig Armstrong

WordsThoughtsYouKnowClosing

I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.

Cindy Morgan

PerformanceWhereComeJustApproach

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

Austan Goolsbee

PeoplePoolSkillKnowUpGoing

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Ashwin Sanghi

MeWritingWorldI CanCreateHelps

Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

DisciplineWantDaysHereSeemsOur

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

Tim Cook

LifeWorkJobLife Is Too ShortYou

I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.

Lena Olin

WorkPeopleProblemsYouCreateSee

It's not going to be true that every country has the same technological possibilities, but there is no reason why it might not be more or less true. Broadly, that the idea that the same technologies should be available everywhere seems to me very plausible.

James Mirrlees

MePossibilitiesBe TrueCountryWhy

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